Robot Carts
 

I was wondering if any teams were willing to post what their robot carts looked like

eh? robot what?

I dont know about other teams but in the many weeks of building the bot we have become lazy in the part of moving it around. When we cant drive it around we want some way to move it around. So we decided on a cart. We were wondering if other teams had some inventful carts they wanted to show off.

TechnoKat
 

We are working on a new one now. it's basically a toolbox on a platform that we got from Delphi awhile ago. We've painted it and added red and blue LED lights to the bottom of the cart and the inside compartments for a "street glow" effect. I'll post pictures when we get done.

Sure, our cart holds the bot, has removeable wheels, space for 3 toolboxes and a controller (with room for the lids to open), a sliding tool tray, and allows for access under the bot. It also feature a pop-up work table. When the wheels are removed (as simple as taking out 1 bolt), it will fit into the back of a suburban.


http://www.lbjhs.net/~dgiesber/first...e/IMG_0772.jpg

Bill B.

i see... well we use a skateboard or we just carry it.

big pimpin. Note the old Chiapua

well
 

So far we don't have it finished so we can't post pictures but we had some very bored yet very creative guys start to put together an awsome " advertisement cart " and and new robot cart

Basically we used some old parts to put together a cart we can drive around :-)

and our robot cart has pneumatics for bouncing :-) heh

WE are working on getting a sound system from the swap shop ( local flea market if you hadn't heard of it ) to play it loud :-)

You have to see team 930's cart...WOW! it's awesome! They attached it to a lawn mower (minus the blade of course ;)), so it is self propelled, with a stereo and pretty good music too.

Nice job to those on Team 930 :D

Re: Robot Carts
 

Our robot cart

here is ours...it can fold up and is in our crate as I speak

We dragged an old shopping cart out of a creek, and used the arc welder to cut off the cart part, leaving just the bottom and the handle thing. With a peice of wood on the bottom it works pretty good.

You know teams are rich when their cart is more professionally made than other teams' actual robots...

Team 930's Cart

I will see about getting a better picture of it

I will blatantly disregard the comment about the rich teams

FIrst off most teams have spare parts from past years, its more to with the time people are willing to put into making your team run efficiently, if its not something your team sees as cool or important don't knock other teams for doing it

Also, if your team doesn't have money, get out and earn it, then you'll have it, almost every team has to earn their money at one point or time by getting annual sponsors, and had to work there butts off to get them, ( now there are some as in 4 or 5 who did basically nothing ) but money doesn't grow on trees if they earned the money to do something cool, more power to them

Our cart, robot sits on top.

Re: well
 

HEY!! Where'd you get that idea from! :-D

lol actually to whether our robot cart will have the pneumatics we aren't sure yet, but what will is our " advertisment cart " which connects to the robot and pulls it on a hitch, thats the one that will prob. bounce and stuff, we may make our robot cart bounce also tho.. lol well we've always had like a boombox under the cart, but to put like 8's in it ( small enough so the battery will last like 2 minutes ) that would own if we have the money :-)

Just a word of caution. If your using pneumatics make sure you have enough air storage so the cart does not run out to quickly and that everything on the cart including the robot is securely fastened . Found that out the hard way :-(

Our top half would be removed, and that is how we work on our robot. It holds all our tools/parts/coats/anything we want it to! We just take the top half off, and poof, it is ready as a "bay" for our robot!!

In the past, our team has used a simple cart, 2x4's mounted in a square with really cheap casters that squeaked.

This year, since one of our sponsors is an extruded aluminum company, we are planning on making our cart from extrusion.

We have a pretty functional, if not cool cart. A guy in a nearby city gave us a whole bunch of 80/20 for free, so we made a cart outta 15/15. Ill see if I can scrounge up some pics of it. It has an onboard battery charging station, onboard power supply, so we can just run a extension cord to the side of it, plug it in, and weve got 4 outlets ready for powerstrips. No more messes of cords in the pits! We are going to add a sound system, very small mind you, so we can have some quiet music in the pits. We will also be adding some tool storage.

Cory

118's Cart
 

Here is our cart, On the 2001 Team I was one of the people who helped Norman Frede Chevrolet build it for us. The support structures on the bottom are 2 front end frames of Chevy Malibus. On top of it is a large sheet of diamond plate with a diamond plated tool box riveted on top of it. There is a bumper which supports the handle which is some scrap bumper we found in Noman Frede's junk yard. Since 2001 it was modified sevral times. During 2001 Nationals we put a full sized police lightbar through the structure frame. Before 2002 LSR I believe that strobe lights and a cdplayer and speakers was put on. Finally for 2002 Nationals it was powered using the unused chipua moters and an old control system.

Chris
One of the two radio toting, Leatherman carrying, webpage designing, EE majoring, FIRST junkies on 118's college student Alumni team.

10/18/02 ;)

our cart should be done on wednesday and we should have pics wednesday night (assuming clark remembers his dumb digital camera)....

We use an old cart that we made in 2000. It's just welded aluminum angle, and it doesn't really fit our robot. We had grandiose plans to build a new cart, but right now, we're just going to modify our old cart to fit the new robot.

We have this grand cart that is welded steel tubing painted brilliant blue and it has 10.5 inch pneumatic tires.

We also refer to it as the dolly :P

lol @ that rich teams one

maybe there was a note of biterness in it. but who cares.. life is going to be like that. even first admitted that it wasnt totally fair, and it cant be : P


we just carry it to and from the school to the garage

We are using a cart made back in 2001. It has beaten and been battered but it still supports 130lbs + any accessories needed to be toted along and it still rolls. ooohhhhh aawwwww eeeee


BTW heres the pictures of our 2002 bot DOROTHY using the one and only Robot cart we have created since the start of 522 and yes our 2003 bot GLORIA will also be blessing this cart

http://robowizards2002.tripod.com/GIFs/ny402.jpg

our cart
 

last year we wripped apart the rolling table our computer was on and used that as a cart :) this year... who knows...i think it would be kinda cool if we got an extra battery...and they let us drive the robot to the feild.....but i can also see the problems that would make......

The Miracle Workerz (365) Cart
 

We built one cart back in 2000 and ever since then, we just modified the cart we had to hold the new robot. Our only requirements is that the robot + cart can fit through a standard door and the robot's wheels are suspended for testing purposes. The only picture of our cart I can quickly scrounge up is the one from 2001... and you can only see part of the cart, but here it is (for what its worth):

we have no pics yet, but we made our cart slender, so the wheels of the robot will hang off the sides (and won't roll off the cart), in the center there is a piece of plexi-glass that has black & silver flames painted on it. The handle has a small box on it that can carry batteries, controller, etc.

Our Cart just has 4 wheels and a handle and it attaches to the robot

War wagon.....the thing you wheel the robot out on.

Innards
 

Here is a look at the innards of our cart

The yellow tool box is a mobile compressor unit we call-
SWAMP GAS

This is our Kart so far, it's only about 75% done, but it looks pretty cool already. It's basically an old toolchest from Delphi that we painted and did a few other cosmetics on. It's got an "undercar kit" (Red LEDs pointing towards the ground), blue LEDs (which you cannot see in this picture) lighting both of the open compartments, and the rotating beacon from our 2002 robot with a yellow filter mounted on it. Also, this Kart is hitched to last years' Kart because at Chicago, our robot would be too tall to get through the doorways if it were on top of the toolchest w/ the wings on it, so we will set the drive base on the "toolchest" part, and The wings on our old Kart.

Last year, we used a piece of plywood with four casters on the bottom, and a piece of 10 guage wire to pull it with. We were planning to build a slightly better version this year, until we saw a pair of gear-head forklift motors at princess auto....

So this year's cart should look like a small electric zamboni with lots of flashing and binking lights.... and a very loud horn or similar noise maker... provided, we gather up the initiative to build it.

Failing that, we will have to use the plywood and casters again

254's cart
 

You can see pictures of the Cheesy Poofs (254)'s cart here and also here . The second one is a little better, but you can see our cool underglow and the mounts for the robot in both. The robot is mounted rotisserie style. We also have 4 drawers and a worktable.

I left a few people on our team in charge of building a NICE NEW CART, and so far, I have seen very poor results! Ouch.

First, they wanted a folding cart, so it could fit in the storage compartment of a bus.

Second, they made their own casters....

Third, they made a 'suspension'.

Id like to say that all of these were successful, but I hope we have a working cart by the 10th or we are in trouble.

Oh yeah... not to mention the old simple cart...

- fits through doors
- carries the robot
- carries 2 batteries
- carries control board (by ways of bungee)
- folds up easily
- just needs some reinforcement of right handle